General Telephone & Electronics 1961
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Number PULEAZE! Part Six:
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Western Electric 1983
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Bell System 1979
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Bell Telephone System 1961
AT&T 1968
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Bell Phone Center 1982
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The Bell System 1960
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#41 thru 45
My how the telephone has changed thru the past 60 years! I’ve never seen the Phone Thing for calculating LD charges and least expensive times to call. People now can’t conceive of having to think about the best time to call someone at a distance. Long distance calls used to be expensive. I live only 45 miles from my family home, but before VOIP and cell phones I used to pay 45 cents for the first 3 mins to call home and then about 12 cents for each additional min.
And #45’s advertisement for the handiness of an extension phone is something else we now take for granted. That used to cost about $5.00 more per mo. per extension, a luxury when min wage was $1.50 per hr.
Thanks Louis, I always enjoy these threads.
Eddie
My how the telephone has changed thru the past 60 years! I’ve never seen the Phone Thing for calculating LD charges and least expensive times to call. People now can’t conceive of having to think about the best time to call someone at a distance. Long distance calls used to be expensive. I live only 45 miles from my family home, but before VOIP and cell phones I used to pay 45 cents for the first 3 mins to call home and then about 12 cents for each additional min.
And #45’s advertisement for the handiness of an extension phone is something else we now take for granted. That used to cost about $5.00 more per mo. per extension, a luxury when min wage was $1.50 per hr.
Thanks Louis, I always enjoy these threads.
Eddie
Always a pleasure Eddie! Enjoy!
Sound level...
<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Well she may be able to visit while she is making that cake but I bet she can not while that dishwasher is running!! HAHA. Love this ad and I remember the GE mixer too. Never saw a blue one.</span>
<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Well she may be able to visit while she is making that cake but I bet she can not while that dishwasher is running!! HAHA. Love this ad and I remember the GE mixer too. Never saw a blue one.</span>
Bell System 1932
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AT&T 1988
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Bell Telephone System 1962
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Telco 1969
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North Ericofon 1960
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<h1><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Press 1 for more anger: Americans are fed up with customer service </span></h1>
Press 1 for Anger!
You said it Louie! I’m so sick and tired for telephone trees, with press this or that and listening to endless crap before you can reach an agent. Then when you finally do get a live human being 9 times out of 10 they are in another country and English is their second language. This is meant as no disrespect for our foreign neighbors, but many times its very difficult to understand them and I really try my best to be patient and polite to them.
I’ve reached the point that many times when I encounter one of these endless telephone tree recordings I just start to press “0” over and over again until I finally get a live wire. It works pretty well most of the time.
But whats worse that the Press 1 for anger lines is that now many companies want you to do an online “Chat” rather than speak with an agent. I say hell to the NO on this! Not once have any of these “chats” brought a resolution to the problem I’m calling about.
Face it, most of corporate America couldn’t care less about customer service anymore. Back in the old days customer service agent jobs were jobs that people with no specialized education could fill and make a living at. Now these jobs have either gone overseas or to automation.
Eddie
You said it Louie! I’m so sick and tired for telephone trees, with press this or that and listening to endless crap before you can reach an agent. Then when you finally do get a live human being 9 times out of 10 they are in another country and English is their second language. This is meant as no disrespect for our foreign neighbors, but many times its very difficult to understand them and I really try my best to be patient and polite to them.
I’ve reached the point that many times when I encounter one of these endless telephone tree recordings I just start to press “0” over and over again until I finally get a live wire. It works pretty well most of the time.
But whats worse that the Press 1 for anger lines is that now many companies want you to do an online “Chat” rather than speak with an agent. I say hell to the NO on this! Not once have any of these “chats” brought a resolution to the problem I’m calling about.
Face it, most of corporate America couldn’t care less about customer service anymore. Back in the old days customer service agent jobs were jobs that people with no specialized education could fill and make a living at. Now these jobs have either gone overseas or to automation.
Eddie
Bell System 1965
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Bell Telephone System 1961
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Bell System 1932
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